Suicidal Quotes

• When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Pain, Want

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

  William Shakespeare

  Silliness, Torment

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicide

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• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, People, Insane

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• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Punishment, Favour

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• It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivation, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 16, 2012

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• No one commits suicide because they want to die.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Want, Commit

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Feelings

  "Sinéad O'Connor explains Twitter suicide claims" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Rain

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Suicide Inspirational

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• The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

  Wu Guoguang

  Suicide, Idealist, Commit

  "The Gate of Heavenly Peace". Frontline (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Self Harm, Mean

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Loneliness, Numbers

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• Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Crazy, Real, Tired

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicide, Men, Wipe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

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• The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.

  Melissa Reeves

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Mean, Decision

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• I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Trying, Alive

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, War, Struggle

  "A history of suicide killers" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2001.

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Maturity

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Names, Tragedy

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